LA2050 Grants Challenge

Announcing the 2023 Winners!

Together with our funding partners, we are granting $2.5 million to 42 organizations making LA better for all.

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Compton Families Power Ahead Full STEAM!

Unearth and Empower Communities

Advancing Equity in Elementary STEAM Learning

Inspiring Tomorrow's Leaders

Field of Dreams Academy

Foster Care Intervention

The Dream Center

SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center

Sola Foundation

Good Heart Chicana/o and Native Science Project

California State University, Northridge Foundation

PowerMyLearning's Family Playlists

PowerMyLearning

Our Students Need a Theater!

CHAMPS Charter High School of the Arts Foundation

Empower TAY: The Life Literacy Workshop Series

Friends Literacy Center Program

Friends of St. Lawrence-Watts Youth Center

TAY Wellness Center: A One-Stop-Shop for Transition-Aged Youth

Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services

Trauma-Informed Youth Development for South Central Youth

A Place Called Home

Peers supporting youth in foster care

Heart and Soul Learning Center

Heart and Soul Center

ASAS-LA Coding and Robotics Program for Youth

After-School All-Stars, Los Angeles

Changing The Narrative

Bruce Wheatley Institute

Breaking barriers of access to quality arts education and creative jobs

Inner-City Arts

Youth First Artist-In-Residence Program

Theatre Of Hearts Inc.

Magic Soil Bus: A Mobile Education Hub for K-12 Schools

Foster Greatness: Changing Lives, Connecting Communities

Foster Greatness

Empowering LA Youth through Personal Finance

LA Family Night at the Aquarium

Friends of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

Transformative Advocacy for Systems-Impacted Youth

CASA of Los Angeles

Systems-Impacted Youth: Skills for Life

Young People in Recovery

Empowering Communities through STEAM Culinary Education

Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles

Comfort Cases Distribution in Los Angeles

POPeretta! - A No-Cost Afterschool Art Program

Pacific Opera Project

Enhancing Educational Stability for Systems Impacted Youth

Community Lawyers, Inc.

Historic Site as Maker Space: Creating Belonging

The Gamble House Conservancy

Gardening and Wellness for Justice-Impacted Youth

Green Arrow Co-Lab

Educational Justice for 800+ Low-Income Youth

College Track 2023 Application

High School Healthcare Career Exploration Program

Saturday Science Academy II (SSA II)

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

Hello Future: World of Impact

LA Promise Fund

Where STEAM Meets the Ocean

AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles

Universal Pre-K Literacy Integration For Teachers (UPLIFT)

When We Grow Together, We Grow Together

The Ron Finley Project

ACT 1: Literacy and Child Development

OurWattsBookshop

Spreading AAPI Awareness to LA Readers

Mindful Sense LLC

Encouraging community engagement in family preservation.

Strengthening The Black Village

Enchanting Minds and Sparking Creativity

A Faery Hunt Inc

KARMA Rescue Animal Film Festival

Cultivating Curiosity in Classrooms and Beyond

HOMEplxce Liberation Arts Business Incubator

CareerX gets foster youth career-ready & self-sufficient

STEAM Pathways Out of Poverty

New Village Girls Academy

Community Applying Systemic STEAM Education to Schools (C-ASSETS)

University of Southern California Joint Educational Project

Paid internships and housing for former foster youth

Stepping Forward LA

Resource Sharing to Support Foster Youth

Black Women for Wellness

LA Enrichment Hub: A Digital Tool for Opening Educational Access

LA STEM Collective

Opening a New Seed House

Seed House Project

Children's Clothing Giveaway, Inc.

Children's Clothing Giveaway, Inc.

Cultivating experiences through integrated arts education.

CHAMPS Charter High School of the Arts Foundation

General Operating for Scholars and Pathways Programs

United Friends of the Children

Student Scholarship Program

Neighborhood Music School

Choose Recovery: Mental Health, By Teens and For Teens

Teens4Teens Help

Building STEAM for Bright Futures!

Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena

Incentive Curriculum Program

Education Is Key

Engaging, Empowering and Uplifting Systems-Impacted Youth

Coalition for Engaged Education

Elevating the Voices of L.A County Child Welfare and Justice Impacted Youth

Fostering Media Connections

Virtual Assistant Living and Education Program - V.A.L.E.

Living Advantage, Inc (LA,INC.)

Harambee Power Talk

Harambee Ministries

Youth Trafficking Survivors Personalized Recovery Services

Saving Innocence Inc.

Tools for Fuel Youth Mentorship Program

Cease For Peace

Shakespeare for Youth in Nature

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Invention Student Incubator

Rolling Robots, Inc.

School Partnerships Program

Versa-Style Dance Company

Heal the Bay Aquarium: Promoting Equity, Marine Science Education, and Workforce Development

Empowering Youth to End Exploitation/Trafficking

BEAM Summer STEM Programs

Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)

Foster Youth Dual Enrollment Equity

Children Youth and Family Collaborative

Enhancing Career Pathways for Transition-Age Foster Youth

First Place for Youth

Benkadi: Changing lives and building stronger communities

Benkadi, a project of Community Partners

Bright Futures- STEAM Education

Museum of Neon Art

Future in Their Hands: Educational Empowerment for Foster Youth

Learning Rights Law Center

JumpStart Drone Careers in South LA

Engineer Factory, a Project of Community Partners

Educational Pathways to Prosperity

Educating Students Together

Empowering Change in Vulnerable Youth

Richstone Family Center

My Bedding Project

S & L Foster Family Agency

Ending the foster care to homelessness pipeline.

The RightWay Foundation

All-City Workshops- From Fearful to Flourishing! Celebrating Humanity Through the Arts.

Dance and Dialogue

Children Investigate the Environment

Armory Center for the Arts

FIN CTE PREP

Future Is Now Schools - Los Angeles

Music Education on the Westside

Elemental Music

Empower Former Foster Youth to Thrive

Extraordinary Families

Compton G.IRLS Club

G.IRL | Compton G.IRLS Club

Foster Love: Supporting LA County Foster Youth

Together We Rise Corporation

Equipping for Life - Life Skills for Systems-Impacted Youth

Story Time with Dream North

Dream North Foundation

Introspection: Free Mental Health Support Program for Queer Young People Experiencing Housing Insecurity

Students of Los Angeles Write the Future

Bring Entrepreneurship To the Classroom

STEAM-powered Civics for LA Youth

The Civics Center

KazooBadoo- AI-driven Immersive Platform for Experiential Learning

KazooBadoo, Inc.

Creative Technologies: Building Mind and Heart

At Risk Youth Arts and Education Program

The Ledge Theatre

Intensive Immersion Program

The Hidden Genius Project

Griffith Observatory Fifth-Grade School Programs

Griffith Observatory Foundation

Building Connections through Discovery Leagues

Discovery Club PSP, Inc.

Unlocking the power of science an math through the arts

Debbie Allen Middle School/Debbie Allen Dance Academy

WOW Youth Financial Citizenship Educational Program

Womxn Of Wealth Foundation Inc

Art + AI for LA Youth

Arts & Mentorship for Underserved Youth

The Outkast Academy

Creating Homes/Preventing Homelessness for L.A. Foster Youth

A Sense of Home

Beats & Rhymes Music Workshop and Album

Street Poets Inc

California Native Plant Teacher Toolkit

Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants

Empowering Underserved Youth Through Coding

Ernest E Just Youth Science Program

Bridge Builders Foundation

Connecting Youth with Media Arts Education

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Representation Matters: If I can SEE it, I can BE it!

Transitions 2 Success

Sanando Semillas: Cultivating Healing Justice Youth Leaders

Uni(verse) interactive youth poetry platform

Get Lit - Words Ignite

Cooking With Gabby - Kids E.A.T. 4 Life Grant

Cooking With Gabby

Nurturing Hearts and Minds

EduCare Foundation

STEAM Sundays for Career Pathways

Museum of Latin American Art

Explore Ballona! STEAM Education Program

Friends of Ballona Wetlands

LA2050 Future Entrepreneurs Professional Mentorship Program

Math Clubs for Underserved Student STEM Advancement

The B-RELYT Organization, Inc.

Energy Battle Royal Classroom Challenge

Global Inheritance

YOUR HANDS HELPING GRANDS

Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation

Youth Everywhere Sing! L.A. Youth Chorus

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association

The Domestic Harmonizer Program: An Innovative Program Meeting the Needs of School Communities

Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative

Transforming STEAM Education and Social-Justice Learning

STEM to the Future

WhizGirls Academy

WhizGirls Academy and PlayWerks, Inc

Youth of Promise Brings Opportunities

Flintridge Center

Uplifting System-Impacted Students to Achieve Academic Success

Advancing Educational Equity through the Arts

Equity & Inclusion for At-Risk Deaf Youth

No Limits Theater Group Inc

River Fellows: Accessing Nature and Jobs

Friends of the Los Angeles River

Reach Them Young

Jesse's Place Organization

Alliance Schools Reimagine High-Dosage Math Tutoring

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation

Residential Treatment for Survivors of Exploitation

Resilience Rising

Young Mothers United for Change

Young Women's Freedom Center

MENTORING LEADERS / BREAKING CHAINS

Spirit Awakening Foundation

Tuition-Free Music Ensembles Program

Los Angeles Music and Art School

Closing the Math Gap to Promote Success in STEM Careers

Unleashing High School Girls' Limitless Potential

Legacy Ladies Inc.

Get Coding: Preparing LA's Students to Thrive in the 21st Ce

Improving Outcomes For Older Foster Youth

STEM Together = Family Design Challenge

Tinker the Robot

Support for foster and systems-impacted youth

Voices of Hope Foster Family Agency

CSHM Project Lead the Way Program

Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School

Co-Empowering Youth Through Healing Art

Arts for Healing and Justice Network

LA's Libraries as Hubs for Science

Library Foundation of Los Angeles

SHOUT Program: High school robotics innovators

Salesian Family Youth Center

1:1 mentoring for 12+ years, no matter what!

Friends of the Children-Los Angeles

Former Foster Youth Transforming The System

National Foster Youth Institute

Source-to-Sea: The LA River And Me

Friends of the Los Angeles River

Designing the Future: Unleashing Innovation through We The People High School's AI Lab

We The People High School

Connect to College/CAUSA (CCC)

STEAM SPACE: Outdoor Learning Lab

Berkeley Hall School

Wise Readers to Leaders summer literacy

Wise Readers to Leaders

Comprehensive Music Education Program for Under-Resourced Schools

Education Through Music-Los Angeles

Leveraging VR for Reentry and At-Risk Populations

Made New Foundation

Students Build LA's Future

Los Angeles Service Academy

Transforming Lives through the Power of Dance

Everybody Dance LA!

Design by Diversity Block Party

Architecture Communities for Los Angeles

Presence of Love STEAM Initiative

PRESENT NOW Presence Program (Moments of Joy)

Wellness Weeks in Schools for LAUSD Youth